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Actors: Christina Applegate, Jonathan Schaech, Justin Lazard, Molly Ringwald
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Brutal Truth
It's been ten years since high school and Emily (Applegate) has invited her nine closest friends to join her for the weekend in a remote mountain cabin. Emily is distraught over the rapes of two of her closest friends while they were on vacation with her months earlier and decides to end her own life while her friends sleep in the cabin.
--Patti Illsley, Resident Scholar



Analysis of The Brutal Truth
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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Inner struggle or disability Yes
Struggle with - anger/anguish over rape

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - blonde
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type - (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average build
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - general circumstances

Setting
United States Yes
Mountains/Cliffs Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel... - depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity? - Some foul language
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